Michael Wiegand
Birth	July 14, 1982 in Witten (North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany)
Education	Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2001-2002 Courses: General Linguistics and English Studies Saarland University 2002-2007 Courses: Computational Linguistics (Major) and Phonetics (Minor) University of Edinburgh Winter 2005 Exchange semester within Erasmus Programme Saarland University 2007-2011 Ph.D. Student in the International Post-Graduate College for Language Technology and Cognitive Systems
Diploma (German M.Sc.)	March 2007 Thesis Topic: Event-Based Question Answering
Ph.D.	January 2011 Thesis Topic: Hybrid Approaches for Sentiment Analysis
Internship	January-February 2006: Institute of Communicating and Collaborative Systems (University of Edinburgh) Task: Unsupervised Lexicon Induction
Employment	2003-2005: Student Research Assistant at SALSA-Project 2006-2007: Student Research Assistant at CORTE-Project 2010-now: Member of Research Staff at Spoken Language Systems
Research Interests	Sentiment Analysis Natural Language Processing Computational Linguistics